Sentence examples for traditional figures from inspiring English sources

Forsythe describes it as "extending and accelerating the traditional figures of ballet.

The traditional figures of rhetoric are usually only abridged arguments, as, for instance, a metaphor is an abbreviated analogy.

The Uranometria, the first serious star atlas, has a plate for each of the 48 traditional figures.

They are, they say, not seen as traditional figures of authority in the way that the men are.

Crates drew from Doric comedy not only anapestic tetrameter verse (see anapest) but traditional figures such as the drunk, the parasite, and the foreign doctor.

All the traditional figures that connect DW Griffiths' 1915 silent film, Birth of a Nation, to Django Unchained via Gone With the Wind are absent in McQueen's portrayal.

The works in the show range across genres and mediums, including abstract paintings, traditional figure studies, collages, documentary and art photography, and sculptures both fanciful and figural.

Now, in the traditional figure skating exhibition, the crowd welcomed her with a huge response.

The experimental Canadian ice-dance company makes its London debut in a new double bill that challenges every convention of traditional figure skating.

But unlike in Iowa, Romney faces a challenge from a more traditional figure: the former Utah governor and fellow Mormon Jon Huntsman.

"This should be on television," said David Raith, the executive director of U.S. Figure Skating, who is promoting synchronized skating to NBC, which broadcasts traditional figure skating.